>> every single meteorite adds to the information that we understand about the history of the earth. >> osgood: the borst belt unlike the asteroid belt is an earthly realm that provided several generations of visitors with scenery, food and lots and lots of laughs. richard schlesinger will escort us with there time travel. >> reporter: the grand hotels of the borst belt are long gone but the jokes survive. >> you eat and drink water and we'll form cement in your stomach. >> everybody did the same jokes. jews have been constipated for 5,000 years. >> reporter: the audiences were tough, the punch lines familiar. >> i earned that joke. reporter: but people still pay to hear them. >> of course the last time i came home i found my business partner in bed with my wife. i said jake, i have to but you? >> reporter: later on sunday morning, beyond the catskills new life for the borst belt.

>> osgood: ship of state is a figure of speech we sometimes use to refer to this country and those in charge of it. this morning mark strassman will be taking us aboard the united states -- not the figure of speech -- but the real ship. >> reporter: the s.s. united states was once the pride of our nation. she still holds the title of the fastest and some would say most beautiful ship we've ever built. but today she's in danger of being sold for scrap. her legend fading like the paint on her smoke stacks. later on sunday morning. they don't build 'em like this anymore. >> osgood: wayne brady is entertainer very much of our own time boasting a multitude of talents that can barely be catalogued let alone contained. with lee cowan we'll watch him at work. ♪ make me reminisce ♪

>> reporter: he can sing dance and deal. >> who wants to make a deal. reporter: wayne brady does it all and loves it all. how do you see yourself? >> i see myself as the guy who can do whatever you want him to do. ♪ there's something... ♪ >> reporter: he juggles more in a day than many entertainers do in a month. keeping up that pace is the deal he made with himself ahead on sunday morning. >> osgood: kelly looks into the murder charges against olympian oscar pistorius. steve hartman honors a hero of the sandy hook school shooting. mo rocca offers president's day weekend honors to the memory of ulysses s. grant. first here are the headlines for this sunday morning the 17th of february, 2013. russian officials say damage from friday's high altitude meteor explosion in russia could run more than 30 million dollars. thousands of people over a wide area are spending this weekend

replacing windows shattered by shock waves from the blast. south african television last night aired a reality show starring reeva steenkamp the model shot to death on valentine's day in the pretoria home of olympic track star oscar pistorius. this morning a minister prayed with pistorius at the jail where he's being held on murder charges. we'll have more on this later on sunday morning. pakistan says at least 81 people were killed and nearly 200 injured were injured when a bomb exploded yesterday at a vegetable market in a mostly shiite neighborhood. many of the wounded are said to be in critical condition. usa today reports that the draft of a proposed white house immigration bill allows for legal residency for millions of illegal immigrants within the next eight years or so. love is in the air in south korea, lots of love. today 3500 couples exchanged vows in a mass ceremony outside

seoul. the brides and grooms are members of the unification church. some of the newlyweds said they had just met. here's today's weather. cold and windy from the great lakes to new england. a foot of snow could fall in parts of maine and massachusetts. the cool weather will stick around during the week ahead accompanied at times by cold rain. next intruders from above. and later,. >> buddy hackett, alan

>> osgood: this is an actual meteorite on loan to us from the smithsonian's natural museum of natural history. a smaller cousin to the object that fell out of the blue in russia the other day. our sunday morning cover story is reported now by rit a braver. >> reporter: the meteor that shot through the sky over central russia on friday exploding into a shower of fire balls created shock waves that were felt for miles. more than 1200 people were injured. shattered glass was everywhere, and thousands of buildings were damaged.

the meteors do fall frequently, such devastating events are rare. but remember many scientists believe it was an asteroid smashing into the earth some 65 million years ago that caused wild fires that changed the environment so much dinosaurs could no longer survive. and for generations humans have been trying to understand the how's and why's of these missiles from outer space. >> this is probably the largest exhibit in the world in terms of meteorites on display. >> reporter: the smithsonian museum of natural history has amassed a major collection of them, overseen by linda wellsinback. this looks like a piece of sculpture. >> iron meteorites are interesting in many ways because they are fragments of an asteroid that has been completely disrupted. we're getting pieces of

something that at one time was a full planet. >> reporter: in fact, most of the meteorites that land on earth come from the asteroid belt, an area between mars and jupiter where space debris collects. here is a little space terminology. asteroids are minor planet-like objects that usually orbit the sun. meteoroids are much smaller bodies. when either enters the earth's atmosphere it's known as a meteor. after it hits the earth it's called a meteorite. you've got 50,000 meteorites in your collection. why are you still trying to get more? >> because every single one is a puzzle piece that adds to the information that we understand about the history of our solar system and the history of the development of the earth. >> reporter: you put me in my place. meteorites are so sought after that there's a little known federal government project.

the antarctic search for meteorites program. it sends scientists, including wellsinback, on annual expeditions. >> when somebody sees one they stop and their first job is to do a little dance. we have a wave that people do. then we all converge on the site. >> reporter: ralph harvey, associate professor of planetary science at cleveland's case western reserve university has been leading the 37-year-old program since 1991. >> the reason we know this is a meteorite is that burnt black coating. >> reporter: he says it's not that there are more meteorites in antarctica than the rest of the world but that they are better preserved in the frigid landscape. >> there are meteorites we've collected in antarctica where they're so young we can't measure that age. there are others we found that fell several million years ago.

there's everything in between. the average seems to be about 25 to 30,000 years. >> reporter: to the scientists' delight they've even found samples from the moon and mars. >> this is an easter egg hunt unlike any easter egg hunt anywhere. >> reporter: the yearly catch is shipped to nasa's johnson space center. here in the non-december crypt building number 31... >> this is the air shower. reporter: ... where you have to suit up to protect the meteorites from contamination. the precious cargo is unpacked and catalogued under the watchful eye of curator kevin rider. >> they're frozen from the time they're collected and returned all the way along the legs of the journey to get to houston. >> reporter: each sample is carefully examined and given a

name based on where it was found. so we get to see a martian meteorite. >> this sample is elephant morain 79001. it's a basaltic rock from mars. >> reporter: it was studying a martian meteorite found in antarctica that led scientists to the discovery that there was once water on mars. and those these ugly ducklings may all look similar to the naked eye each meteorite has different chemical and mineral content. under a polarizing microscope, there is beautiful... they're as beautiful as stained glass windows for it's what they may some day tell us that really matters. >> i would say that the study of meteorites is akin to where biology was in the pre-darwin era. we're bringing back all sorts of funky new creatures and we're trying to fit them into a

framework and understand how one relates to another. >> reporter: since the antarctic program began in 1976, it's cost about $25 million. the curiosity rover mission now analyzing samples on the surface of mars, cost about $2.5 billion and won't even bring back any material to earth. >> this is a way to get a piece of mars that costs us a millionth of what that project might cost. >> reporter: you've described this whole operation as kind of a poor man's space mission. >> a poor person's space mission. >> reporter: poor person's. the antarctic missions have brought back more than 20,000 meteorites, and the program has loaned thousands of samples to researchers all over the world who are trying to make discoveries about the evolution of planets and stars. still, at the smithsonian... >> we have calcium aluminum rich

inclusions. those were the first things to form in the solar system. >> reporter: antarctic meteorite curator kerry kerrigan and her colleague linda wellsinback are well aware that some members of congress want to shut down the project. >> that's very disheartening to me because i think that's not looking at the big picture. i think that's a little short sighted. this silly little rock that it looks like you could just pick up in your backyard can tell us four billion years of history of the solar system. >> reporter: as you might expect there's major interest at the smithsonian in what happened in russia. keep in mind friday's russian meteor is estimated at about 50 feet in diameter versus more than six miles across for the one believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs. so could something even worse ever be headed our way?

>> there are a lot of large object out there. at anyone time they can be put into the inner solar system and intersect earth's orbit. the answer is, it could happen. >> reporter: but the unsettling reality is there's nothing researchers could do about it. so, they are far more focused on the idea of solving the puzzle of how the solar system formed. >> it's a daunting task for sure. >> it is. but the picture does become slightly clearer each and every time we find something new. and the new questions that are generated from that next thing is what keeps us going. >> osgood: next, small wonder.

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it was german chancellor adolph hitler who launched the v.w. in 1933 when he called on the legendary ferdinand porsche to design a low-cost people's car or volkswagen. large-scale production didn't begin until after world war ii. worldwide success was a while in coming. in all of 1949 exactly two beatles were sold in the united states. over time, however the small car with the rear-mounted air-cooled engine became genuinely cool. helped in large measure but those witty and understated ads. though ford initially disputed v.w.'s claim to the production record no one disputes the beatle's claim to a special place in our popular culture. after all there's a beatle behind the beatles on the cover of abby road. >> what is it? a 200-year-old volkswagen. osgood: woody allen paid

tribute in the 1973 time travel movie. >> they really built these things, didn't they? >> reporter: and disney cast the beatle as the star of the herbie the love boat films. the last of the original design beatles was built in mexico in 2003. five years after the debut of a newer and more futuristic beatle, which has just rolled into modern year 2013. today the v.w. beatle is 4th in all-time production ranks between the toyota core al a the ford f series and volkswagen's own gulf. as for the model-t nearly 86 years after production stopped the tin lizy still finishes number 8. >> i kristen thee united states. osgood: coming up full steam

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@púpx÷÷pwpwpw >> osgood: sail on, owe ship of state. sail on, you union strong and great. henry wad worths longfellow wrote those stirring words in his 1849 poem "the building of the ship." a ship he meant as a metaphor for our country. roughly a century later we built a ship that really did stand for our country. but as mark strassman is about to show us, today that ship of state is no longer sailing on.

>> reporter: if you ever find yourself south of downtown philadelphia in the parking lot of this strip mall, take a look past the buzzing traffic. >> announcer: america's bid for the supremacy of the seas. >> reporter: there chained to an idle dock floats a legend, forlorn and largely forgotten. only her name still speaks to the pride she once inspired across the nation. the s.s. united states. >> announcer: a ship that would be so fast and so easily handled handled, she could outmaneuver any other. >> this is the most famous ship that didn't sink. we all know the titanic. and this spectacular maiden voyage catastrophe. this ship is famous precisely because she did her job. >> reporter: susan gibbs, the

executive director of the s.s. united states conservancy, never sailed on this ship. but interest in the vessel's fate runs in her blood. her grandfather william francis gibbs, was the ship's designer. how important is this to you? >> this has become... certainly my grandfather was obsessed with the ship. my children would say i am following in his footsteps. >> reporter: gibbs was a self-taught naval architect a harvard dropout with a single-minded devotion to his work. he was once asked mr. gibbs do you love that ship more than your wife? and gibbs responded you're 1,000% correct. his wife happened to be there and didn't mind. she understood what the ship men to him. this author has set out to restore the acclaimed gibbs once enjoyed. consider this. >> announcer: one year after entering the war united states gains in naval tonnage shatter all records. >> reporter: during world war ii, three quarters of the u.s.

naval vessels built were designed by gibbs' firm, from destroyers to liberty ships... >> announcer: this is the supreme moment of invasion. >> reporter: ... to the landing craft used on d-day. >> the prime requisites where speed, power and passenger comfort... >> reporter: after the war gibbs poured everything he knew into one ultimate ship. >> i kristen thee united states. reporter: larger, faster and far safer than the titanic. the vessel could accommodate 2,000 passengers in high style though if war broke out she could be converted to carry 14,000 troops. the design was so revolutionary it was classified. >> while censorship for bids revealing details of her lower held construction it is no secret that the new liner possesses structural strength and features for safety unknown in shipbuilding even a few short

years ago. >> reporter: on her very first atlantic crossing in july 1952, she set the world speed record three days ten hours and 40 minutes. her return time from england to new york remains unbeaten to this day. >> announcer: on her return to new york city, nearly everyone seemed to turn out to see the sleek new ship slide into the harbor. >> imagine taking a structure the size of the chrysler building turning it on its side and pushing it through the atlantic at a 44 miles an hour speed. that's a heck of a lot of engineering. on top of that, make it the most beautiful ship in the world. >> reporter: this beautiful ship attracted the beautiful people of her day. marilyn monroe, marlin brand oh, the duke and deutch he is of windsor, artist sal dore dali. even that legendary european beauty the mona lisa made the

crossing aboard the big u. it was a heady experience for everyone on board. >> i remembered how absolutely gorgeous those stacks were. what it looks like when it's painted properly. >> reporter: back in 1958, five-year-old roz mcpherson and her family sailed to her father's new army posting in europe. they had come from the segregated south. but mcpherson discovered something remarkable on board. the ship was color blind. >> you figure that's 1958. that was a big deal to us as a family from the south because i would not have been frolicking in a pool in new orleans, i can guarantee you that. >> reporter: with the white kids. >> and white families. here my parents are dressed up in the lounge sitting there with white people. we were really treated like regular human beings on this voyage. >> reporter: everything about the experience made passengers feel special. and yet no ship could compete with this.

>> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, good morning. this is your captain. welcome to the jet age. >> reporter: jet travel cut the journey to just over six hours. and so in 1969, the s.s. united states was moth balled. in 1984, her fittings were auctioned off. >> it was a great opportunity but a little bit sad at the same time. >> very sad. but i thought to myself if i and other collectors don't gather some of this material together and keep it it will be lost forever. this represents what a first class dining table would have liked like on the s.s. united states. >> reporter: by coincidence our colleague here at cbs producer charles howland happens to be a leading collector of s.s. united states memorabilia. >> this was was a chest of drawers that would have been in a state room. >> reporter: his apartment is a living shrine to her furnishings. >> these tables all had a

propeller design. >> reporter: from cocktail tables to state room linens. you eat breathe and sleep this ship. >> yes. reporter: howland's ship shape rooms are a sight to behold. but he and the s.s. united states conservancy have grander designs in mind. they're searching for a final home port where she is be converted into a museum, hotel and conference center. the estimated price tag $150 to $300 million. but the clock is ticking. with future funding uncertain the ship remains in constant danger of being sold for scrap. >> if there's a ship that ought to be saved it's probably one called the s.s. united states? >> absolutely. but it will take people of imagination. it's going to take political will. and it's going to take money. we as a nation should be able to save our best ship, and she is our best ship.

>> osgood: ahead, the final battle of general ulysses s. grant. but first a murder charge that's the talk of the world.

>> osgood: people around the world are still trying to comprehend the news that olympic hero oscar pistorius is under arrest and charged with murder. kelly has filed this sunday journal. >> reporter: he buried his face and appeared to be shaking with tears when he heard the murder charge against him friday but his eyes were dry. when his father reached for him he pulled away. his family says his tore use is numb with shock and grief. his uncle arnold pistorius. >> as you can imagine our entire family is devastated. we are in a state of total shock. >> reporter: so too are his fans. oscar pistorius was south africa's golden boy born without some bones in his lower legs but determined to run and fast. he won his first pair lick pick gold medal at 17 wearing special

prosthetics made for the tracks. they called them blades and him blade runner. pistorius broke records. he beat able-bodied athletes. in london last summer he became the first double amputee to compete in both the paralympic and olympic games. successfully arguing that his carbon fiber legs gave him no advantage over flesh and bone. >> i mean, we can get so technical about how much stuff they've tested. there isn't an advantage. >> reporter: he was a star, talented, hard working humble. he could do no wrong. until the london paralympics. at his best event a brazillian on blades outpaced him. he lashed out falsely accusing the winner of cheating. he apologized later. it was seen as a slip in an otherwise stellar career. now some of his fans see it as something else. a sign that their hero had a darker side all along.

>> i know there's a lot of speculation as to whether he did it on purpose or not. but it's word. >> reporter: the 26-year-old was arrested at his home in pretoria thursday morning. valentine's day. his girlfriend of a few months reeva steenkamp had been shot four times through a bathroom door with his nine millimetre handgun. police have said little except that they had been to the home before. >> i can say there have previously been incidents at the home of mr. oscar pistorius. >> reporter: there are reports pistorius thought his girlfriend was an intruder. south africa has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world. millions live in gated communities with private security and panic alarms. six million people own guns in a country of 50 million. pistorius owned two and claims to keep them at his bedside. he tweeted pictures of himself at a firing range.

in november he sent a tweet about a noise from the washing machine sending him into full combat recon mode in the pantry. friends and colleagues say pistorius isn't the violent type. mike kenrick is the charity of the. pistorius was an ambassador. >> out of great humility. a man of great humility. i never saw an ego or a temper in oscar. >> reporter: last year he showed a different side, allegedly threatening to break a man's legs in an altercation over a woman. his newest love reeva steenkamp was said to be happy and smiling the day before she died tweeting, what do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow? get excited. valentine's day. but neighbors reported heard shouting coming from pistorius' home two hours before the shooting. she was half of south africa's

golden couple with a successful modeling career and a new reality tv show which aired saturday despite her death. the producers say they made the decision to honor her memory. the family did not object. >> i can't see her family getting over this shortly. it's going to be a long, long-term reconciliation. >> reporter: oscar pistorius is being held at a local police station in pretoria until his bail hearing on tuesday. prosecutors want him in custody through his murder trial. his uncle is already defending him. >> there's no doubt here there's no substance for the allegations. >> reporter: if he's wrong oscar pistorius could spend the rest of his life in a prison cell. >> osgood: who is buried in grant's tomb? that's next.

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>> osgood: when news of the surrender first reached our lines, our men commenced firing a salute of 100 guns in honor of the victory. i at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. the confederates were now our prisoners and we did not want to exalt over their downfall. that account of the confederate surrender at appomatox is from the best selling memoirs of grant, the triumphant union general who went on to win two terms as president. mo rocca now with the story of grant's final battle. >> reporter: if you're looking for the place where ulysses s. grant breathed his last, well, just follow the signs for upstate new york's mount

macgregor correctional facility. >> do you have any i.d. reporter: yeah. once you're past security and up the hill you will indeed find yourself surrounded by the grounds of a medium-security prison. i'm guessing that when general grant sat out here, he did not see that. >> no, he didn't see the razor wire. >> reporter: tim welch runs the grant cottage historic site. unusual as its setting may be, it's what happened inside the cottage that is truly remarkable. >> grant came here because it was so incredibly hot in new york city during the summer of 1885, and his advanced tongue and throat cancer was so painful and he was suffering. >> reporter: yes, when the general and former president came here, he was dying of throat cancer and he was broke. >> he had only $189 in his checking account as a result of his son getting him into a ponzi scheme. >> reporter: for years the man who had led union troops to victory in the civil war had declined offers to tell his

story in print. he didn't consider himself a literacy man. but now he was being offered $50,000 and 75% of sales by an admirer of his author mark twain. >> mark twain was a great fan of ulysses grant. he made no secret of his admiration for grant. >> reporter: grant biography h.w. brands. >> so when he heard that grant was thinking about writing a book-like memoir he thought that it would be a great idea if he, twain, could be the one to publish it. >> reporter: it was an offer grant couldn't afford to refuse. but time was running short. >> everybody in the united states knew that grant was dying. and the nation in a very basic way held its breath to see who would win this race. >> he had a mission because this was the only way he was going to bail out his family from the poverty that he had inflicted on them. >> reporter: the cottage looks eerily like it did during the five weeks grant spent here. this is where he wrote.

>> so he would sit on one and he would have a pad in front of him, his legs would be propped up over here. he couldn't lay down because he would choke because of his tongue and throat cancer. >> reporter: many of grant's personal effects are still here. his bed clothes. his hair brush. and of course his cocaine water. >> it's called cocaine water. it was used to bathe his throat and his tongue to give him some relief from the pain. >> reporter: that's sediment down there. is that cocaine? >> that's cocaine. every year the new york state department of parks and recreation measures this and makes sure that none of it is gone. >> reporter: are you... you're not kidding? >> i'm quite serious. reporter: grant was in too much pain to talk to his family or visitors. so he wrote notes. >> i have such difficulty in speaking that i am no company. >> reporter: but the memoir writing came easier than he may have expected. the words seemed to flow.

>> he discovered that he really did have a facility for it. when grant says he could write 10,000 words in a day and the words hardly needed any revising at all you know, i and other writers just sort of put to shame by this. he was dying of cancer at the time. it's a remarkable feat of writing. >> reporter: and one he finished. only days before dying on the morning of july 23. >> so this the clock that was stopped at the moment that the doctors said that grant had breathed his last. which is 8 minutes after 8:00 july 23, 1885. >> reporter: these flower arrangements encased in bees' wax have been here for 127 years. >> this one in the shape of a pillow with a four star general sabre was sent by general meade the hero of gettysburg. >> reporter: they're mementos of the outpouring of grief that came from every part of the country. one-and-a-half million people

lined the streets of new york city for his funeral procession. just how admired was grant? two of his pall bearers were former confederate generals. as for the memoir? at more than 600 pages it was a run-away best seller. the family was saved from financial ruin. >> the memoirs brought in ultimately something like $400,000 in cash which is millions and millions of dollars today. >> reporter: ulysses grant beats is the general's great great grandson. >> it was a point of pride that the family clung to for the next generation. still do i suppose. grant's memoir was the first really successful celebrity memoir in american history. it was the first published memoir by a president that made an impact. >> reporter: its success would have surprised no one more than grant. >> he was a very modest man despite the great accomplishments he made. despite the fact that he was the hero of his age in the united states.

by the time he died he was one of the most famous men in the world. but he still thought you know, it's just an amazing that i became the commanding general of the u.s. army. then i was twice elected president of the united states. i think it would have astonished him that he would in addition to that have been considered to be one of the great writers in american history.

>> osgood: two months have passed since the school shooting in newtown connecticut. but for those who lost loved ones the nightmare is still very much present and heart breaking. steve hartman has one man's story. >> reporter: after 31 years of marriage bill sherlock says he and his wife had fallen into a routine. every morning pretty much the same. however, for whatever reason on the morning of december 14, bill

did something different. >> she's coming across the kitchen floor and i grab her and i give her a big hug and we had a big kiss. most mornings it's grab the coffee, out the door, what's on the schedule? not that morning. not that morning. >> reporter: it's the only consolation in what has been an otherwise inconsolable new year. >> this is the huge part that's gone. >> reporter: later that day 56-year-old school psychologist mary sherlock became one of the six adult victims of the sandy hook shooting. >> they gave their lives to protect the precious children in their care. >> reporter: friday in washington d.c. all six were posthumously awarded the presidential citizens medal. one of our country's highest civilian commendations. >> that's what we honor today. the heart the selfless spirit, the inspiring actions of extra extraordinary americans. >> reporter: although we may

never know exactly what happened inside the school that day we do know this about mary. she was in a meeting. heard gun fire and ran toward it. that's what makes her a hero to most of us. but to her husband, she had already earned that title long before. >> that's you? me. reporter: by the time they met in college mary had already decided she wanted to work helping people. she took some time off to raise their two girls but eventually got her masters in psychology and then her dream job. at sandy hook. >> when she started working with these kids it was her mission. >> they were having a tough day they could go see mary. >> reporter: chris worked with mary and was with her when the shooting started. >> she went out to check it out and protect and see what was happening. knowing that something was something wasn't right. >> reporter: last week bill went to warehouse where they had been storing all the cards and gifts pouring in from around the world for the victims' families. >> i thought my vehicle was big

enough but it's not going to be. >> reporter: he's at a place now where he can start to go through some of this. although he says he's still a long way from completely accepting any of it. >> you catch yourself. something... i wonder what mary will think about this. it's like those big pink erasers in elementary school, it's like someone just erased her. >> reporter: is there any good that will ever come from this? >> there had better be. it's a tremendous waste. if it's not. >> osgood: coming up. but, dad, this is awful. the jacket is huge. >> just do this. reporter: stand-up comedy that stands the test of time.

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>> i'm still in love with the same woman. if my wife ever finds out she'll kill me.

now you take my wife, please. >> osgood: classic humor from the legendary henny youngman. typical of the sort of comedy that used to reign in the new york state vacation spots known as the borscht belt. no everyone remembers that time and place but richard schlesinger of "48 hours" certainly does. >> reporter: before things happened in las vegas this was the happening place. the resorts of the catskill mountains. 100 miles from new york city in the '40s, '50s and '60s, they attracted predominantly jewish visitors, many of them immigrants. they came for the fresh air and the shows. there was lots of both. and the performers spoke their language which was frequently yiddish. the place became known as the

borscht belt, and before long big name stars... >> i feel great. i really feel wonderful. i just got back from a pleasure trip. i took my mother-in-law to the airport. >> reporter: ... like milton berle and george burns added to stages of big catskills hotels to their list of must stops. >> there was grossingers the concorde. >> 3,000 people. kut was 1500 people. >> reporter: they were packed? they were packed. reporter: if you are of a certain age and from a certain area, chances are these scenes certainly look familiar. and you might even be familiar with stewy stone. >> my applause. how many people still remember the concorde hotel? was that a great part of our life? the catskills. >> reporter: one of so many comedians who made names for themselves in the borscht belt.

>> you know, when we started everybody did the same jokes. you would do a joke. i heard this yesterday you know. >> reporter: it hurts. every time we did the same joke. a woman goes to the hospital. i want to see my husband. he's dead. she said give him anen ma. it wouldn't help. it wouldn't hurt. every comic did that joke. >> reporter: the comics needed quick witts and thick skins. the audiences were not just tough. >> my youngest is named after my grandfather. we have a son gamed grandpa. >> reporter: they delivered their reviews with their feet. >> the concorde was famous for having four doors in the back. when you were on stage if they didn't like you they would walk out in the middle of your act. you'd see the door open and the light would come in like a light from above. then if they hated you two doors would open. so that's how we judged an act. how is the fact?

four doors. it was the worst act. >> reporter: how many doors did you average? >> some nights it was a one door. some nights... it never was a four door. >> reporter: the borscht belt style of humor was a kind of self-deprecating celebration of suffering. >> i mean, the typical joke is a guy is hit by a car. he's laying in the street. and the guy walks over and puts a coat under his head. he said are you comfortable? and the man looks up and said i make a living, a cultural feel, a rhythm. the catskills was a rhythm, a joke was a rhythm. take my wife, please. i make a living. so much... the food here stings and the porsches are so small. it's the rhythm. >> reporter: laugh if you want. but jokes like that built a lot of careers until it all changed. this is what much of the borscht belt looks like now. this ruin used to be the

concorde. you remember. the place where stewy stone played before 3,000 people. look at it now. all it is is a memory. almost all the great hotels are gone. >> the '50s, the '60s, into the '70s were the busiest time for us. >> reporter: the owner of the only surviving big hotel in the catskills. >> i was seeing the same people as guests and their children year after year. they would be here for six weeks, eight weeks. >> announcer: your sports commentator drove up to the catskills mountains... >> reporter: in the golden years of the borscht belt, this place found a star or two without really trying. the hotel had a basketball team coached by red auerbach, the legendary coach of the boston celtics. >> in 1954, a young basketball player out of philadelphia still in high school, wilt chamberlain

came to work for us as a bell hop. >> they call him built the stilt. playing against top college stars in competition he's been averaging better than 30 points per game. >> reporter: of course red auerbach made the new bell hop the new star of the kutsher's basketball team. >> remember the name, wilt chamberlain. >> reporter: they love to talk about history in the catskills but when the children and the grandchildren of the borscht belt's best customers discovered jet travel and florida and europe the catskills didn't seem so attractive. >> people's habits as to how they vacation changed. ♪ forget about the future, be here now ♪ >> reporter: nowadays, the place survives with the occasional big event like this. it's a weekend long festival to promote legalized marijuana and

another sign of changing times here. ♪ we already are you and me ♪ >> reporter: of course, the huger that thrives here still fills theaters in other places. ♪ i want to make you laugh ♪ >> reporter: this one off broadway. same old jokes. same old audience. the group is lining up to see old jews telling jokes. but seriously folks they love this stuff. >> driving down the long island express. a cop pulls him over and says, sir, do you realize your wife fell out of the car a mile back? the man says, thank god. i thought i was going deaf. >> the jokes are unbelievably funny. it doesn't matter when they came where they came from. they're just funny. >> reporter: the producers of old jews telling jokes peter

gethers and daniel oakrent believe you don't have to be in the borscht belt to love the humor. >> of course the last time i came home i found my business partner in bed with my wife. i said jake, i have to. but you? >> and this is the create tive invention of the borscht belt in the 40s and '50s. it doesn't exist but the artistic output exists. that's borscht belt humor. >> doctor, doctor, did you get the results? >> i'm afraid i have some bad news and very, very bad news. the bad news is that you only have 24 hours to live. >> oh, my god that's only the bad news. what could be worse than that? >> i couldn't get ahold of you yesterday. >> reporter: the jokes travel pretty well from the catskills to of off broadway and the show is doing so well it's going on the road. >> i once dated a woman from new jersey. worst sex of my life. >> what? what did he say? >> he said he knows you.

basically it's like catskills smat skills. you can tell the jokes without the buildings being there. >> you don't need to be in vienna to listen to mozart. >> reporter: mozart and the borscht belt. it's an unlikely comparison. mozart's work endures because he never wrote a bad piece. but the borscht belt endures despite the bad jokes maybe because of the bad jokes. >> they're going to sell a talking doll of my mother. you pull the string and it says "again with the string?" >> who wants to make a deal. osgood: it's a deal. wayne brady is next. and later... >> best in show winner, the... osgood: we go to the dogs. with the fidelity guided portfolio summary you choose which accounts to track

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ticket to a one-man show. >> let's go now. reporter: you might get a little james brown. >> he would do that thing. reporter: perhaps sammy davis jr., too. >> i want to thank the audience. all of a sudden when he would start singing his voice would change and he would get bigger. >> reporter: if you have kids, you might recognize. >> we've got to eat and you've got the food. >> reporter: clover, the rabbit from disney's sophia the first. >> get your hands off me, sophia. all right. you can touch me. >> reporter: with all those voices in his head you might think wayne brady is a bit schizophrenic, but few entertainers who are more single minded about success than he is. how do you see yourself? >> i see myself as the guy that can do whatever you want him to do. >> reporter: this 40-year-old father of one has shown he can do just about anything he's asked to do. >> my name is...

reporter: he's won an emmy for his improv skits. >> go on. i just want to tell you who i was. i have no questions. >> oh, thank you. reporter: he won two more emmys for best talk show host. he's been nominated for a grammy, wants to win a tony, and he says he's just getting warmed up. ♪ change don't come ♪ >> there's so many things that i cannot do. but this stuff the entertaining entertaining, the singing the improv, the dancing the drama the writing music the sketch writer i've got those. >> reporter: he got them, he says, from watching his heroes, the dean martins frank sinatras, and carol burnetts of the world. >> all right. we have or. >> reporter: it's that same kind of old-school versatility that brady hopes he's bringing to his current performance. >> you want a car (screaming). 've got $20,000. reporter: as the host of

"let's make a deal." the game show turned 50 years old this month. perfect for an entertainer who sees himself as a throwback. the more outlandish and unexpected the audience, the more brady feels alive and on his toes. ♪ come on, work my way around your corns and avoid that blister ♪ >> i'm in the middle of the audience thinking on my feet, changing people's lives and making some comedy along the way. >> for $75 joyce hill bought door number 3. >> reporter: he's got big shoes to fill. it was monte hall who first put "let's make a deal" on the air back in 1963. >> and what have we got back there? >> reporter: he made guessing what's behind curtain number 1 a national pastime. >> monte hall. reporter: hall is now 91. but he's still in the game as wayne brady's creative

consultant. >> i once said to wayne when we were starting the show, i said, wayne, if a woman is going for a car and she loses it and still kisses you you did something right. >> there's something waiting by the side of the box. i just want you to see it. >> you feel like you had sort of the tradition to live up to because of the show and it was so well known? >> no. that was very freeing. >> all i needed to do was entertain. everything else would fall into place. >> reporter: not bad for a kid from orlando florida who grew up reluctant to even open his mouth all because of a debilitating stutter. how bad was the stutter? >> it was bad enough to... i really did not want to talk to too many people because i would get so worked up. (stuttering) i was just going to shut up because if i shut up,

then you can't make fun of me. >> reporter: he was raised largely by his grandmother. so much so he calls her mom. but even she couldn't stop the teasing. >> either you break under that pressure as a kid because bullying is no joke, or you learn to take it and give it back and do it in a way that gets a positive response. >> reporter: that's what acting was for you. >> that's what acting was for me. >> everybody welcome to... reporter: that ability to come up with a quick comeback to those who tormented him was what eventually landed brady in the spotlight. >> you're going to be singing to richard simmons. >> i'm ready. you're going to be singing to him. make a song about richard in the style of disco. >> reporter: he broke on to the national scene on the improv comedy hit whose line is it anyway. ♪ he might be white but look at that flow ♪ >> reporter: he was so good many thought that there just had to

be a script but there wasn't. he made everything up on the spot. ♪ i thought it was richard. what's my wife going to think? ♪ ♪ oh, richard ♪ >> if you're not getting a laugh every time you open your mouth then you have no business being on that show. >> reporter: soon other opportunities came his way. >> your host for miss america wayne brady. >> reporter: everything from hosting the miss america pageant in 2002, the first black host ever, by the way. >> it's the wayne brady show. reporter: to getting his name on a talk show. >> i had my own show, the wayne brady show. that was the biggest thing in the world to me. you couldn't... i thought that i had arrived. >> reporter: but with the notoriety came the critics. some claiming brady wasn't black enough. others, that his act was just too squeaky clean.

until, that is,... >> there he is. [bleep] it's wayne brady. >> reporter: wayne brady showed another side. >> rachael, what's this? mr. franklin is lonely. >> reporter: surprising audiences with a comedy sketch he helped write with comedian dave chapell. >> is wayne brady going to have to [bleep]? >> reporter: wayne brady the thug became an internet sensation which was flat hing, brady says but only to a point. >> people go but that's just not you. that's why it's so funny. you don't know me until the day that i die, i will constantly say, do not define me by that. >> reporter: labels aren't wayne brady's thing. just when he was getting recognized for his acting talents... ♪ doesn't mean a thing ♪ >> reporter: ... he turned to

music. >> music has always been my first love. ♪ girl, out of all the time you have... ♪ snet. >> reporter: he's currently in the studio working on an r and b album, and expectations are high. why? because this isn't his first album. ♪ i was born by the river ♪ >> reporter: a long time coming was released back in 2008. it landed him a grammy nomination for the best traditionaltradition r and b vocal performance of a sam hook classic. >> when a grammy nomination of all things, my first c.d. out dropped in my lap i cried. i cried to myself and then i called my mom and i cried. i knocked on my little girl's room (imitating crying) big deal in my household. >> reporter: if everything else were to go away but you still had music you'd be happy?

>> yes. yeah, i would. >> reporter: there are few worries about anything going away yet. after all he remains a regular as a headliner in las vegas. >> show time. reporter: true to form, his show offers a little bit of everything. just the way he likes it. no labels. >> i've always consistently just been me. i'm 40 now. so i hope i'll have this conversation with you when we're 80 and be able to say the same thing. ♪ adorable, baby ♪ >> osgood: ahead, a banner week for banana joe. what? another article that says investors could lose tens of thousands of dollars in hidden fees on their 401(k)s?! seriously? seriously.

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>> osgood: the saga of a college football player with the imaginary girlfriend genuinely interests our contributor luke burbank particularly around valentine's day. >> manti te'o became a national laughing stock when it turned out his girlfriend, the woman he told the media had been the love of his life, was made up. an invention of social media and an obsessed fan. the whole thing seemed at first look like a travesty. i mean he and this imaginary girl had never even met never been in the same room together, never fallen asleep in each other's arms. what on earth could the appeal be? but then i started thinking about it. and i realized there are also some other things they had never done. they had never fought over which tv show they were going to watch. they never sat awkwardly at a restaurant wracking their brains for something to chat about. they never to pretend the other person's morning breath wasn't bordering on medically worrisome? you see where i'm going here.

i can still remember my imaginary girlfriend. it was middle school. she lived naturally, in canada. her name was tiffany. she did gymnastics. she was amazing. she could be anything i wanted her to be. and in her eyes, i was just the coolest. who knew a beautiful canadian gymnast would be drawn to pimples and an obsession with uni-cycling. of course you had to imbue her with these qualities since i had made her up. by manti te'o was actually talking to another person, a person who did a pretty spot-on impression of an attractive young lady. i mean, have you heard the voice mails? >> i'm just calling to say good night. i love you. i'll talk to you tomorrow. i love you so much, hon. sweet dreams. >> reporter: who wouldn't want could tom home to a message containing that kind of love and support after a hard day of smash-mouth college footballing? my point is this. every relationship has its pros and its cons.

we put up with all kinds of stuff from the people we love because, well, they're the people we love. whoa we're all looking for is a person who cares about us, who listens to our stories even though we've told them 100 times, someone who makes our good days better and our bad days a little more bearable. when we find that person, we cling to them, whether they're real or imaginary. now if you'll excuse me, i've got to go call tiffany. she'll want to hear all about how this commentary went. >> osgood: next, we check the mail.

here's a look at the week ahead on our sunday morning calendar. monday is president's day, of course. as well as the 80th birthday of artist and musician yoko ono widow of former beatle john lennon. on tuesday kate middle ton the duchess of cambridge visits a london recovery center for female addicts her first public engagement since announcing her pregnancy in december. wednesday is the deadline for lance armstrong to provide full details of his performance-enhancing drug use to the united states anti-doping

agency. on thursday, the u.n. security council's committee on north korean sanctions meets in the wake of the north's third nuclear test. friday sees the auction of the original cast stone version of the iwo jima monument inspired by the joe rosenthal photograph of the world war ii flag raising and saturday oscar eve is the day for the razzy awards honoring -- if that's the word for it -- the year's worst films and performances. we'll take a moment now to check the mail. we've heard from a few of you about the mail, about an off-hand remark i made a few weeks back in response to the recent hike in postal rates. clearly people do appreciate the service the postal service provides for a mere 46 cents. sheryl signs of denver, colorado, writes i was taken aback by your negative comment sunday morning. mr. osgood owes the public an

apology for this undeserved criticism. point taken. you're right in reference to what's now called snail-mail as a quaint custom i was trying unwisely to be a wise guy. sorry. and our thanks to cristian mcdonnell of belmont massachusetts for his card noting my recent birthday. very thoughtful, cristian. very colorful, too. if you've got something on your mind that you'd like to share with us, write us at now we go to bob scheiffer in washington for a look at what's ahead on face the nation. good morning bob. >> schieffer: good morning charles. well, space junk picking up hope and washington gridlock. we'll start with the last one and the white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough. >> osgood: thank you bob scheiffer. we'll be watching. next week here on sunday morning morning, the oscars edition.

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residency for millions of undocumented immigrants. the new draft from the white house that may lead the way for immigration reform. weathe . today what may be a path to residency a. new draft from the white house that could lead the way to immigration reform. leading our way into a pretty nice sunday for the bay area. sunny skies but all that will be changing in the week ahead. >> he's still part of the roman

catholic church. >> what's driving the new campaign to stop a california cardinal from casting his vote for the next pope. it is 7:30, sunday, february 17. thanks for joining us. i'm anne makovec. here we go. if it's not today, it's tomorrow unless it's yesterday. but we've got a lot to cover in our next hour, whatever it may be. first up of course, we have the question of the pope. we're also going to be taking a look at gas prices in the state of california. >> that's right. and water bottle gate. the second watergate, the sip heard around the world after the republican response to the presidential address last week. i can't believe we're actually talking about this but that's what was making it big on social media after the presidential state of the union. so we're going to get into that. >> we're going to get into it as a way of talking about political candor and what you say and the visual and what the public actually